OSS + ELC EU 2026: Full Schedule

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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09:00 CEST

Welcome & Opening Remarks - Welcome & Opening Remarks - Jim Zemlin, Chief Executive Officer, The Linux Foundation, Thierry Carrez, General Manager, OIF & LF Europe & Ramón Roche, Executive Director, Dronecode Foundation

Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:00 - 09:45 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Speakers

Thierry Carrez

General Manager, OIF & LF Europe

Ramon Roche

Executive Director - Dronecode Foundation, The Linux Foundation

Jim Zemlin

Chief Executive Officer, The Linux Foundation

Jim Zemlin’s career spans three of the largest technology trends to rise over the last decade: mobile computing, cloud computing, and open source software. Today, as Chief Executive Officer of The Linux Foundation, he uses this experience to accelerate innovation in technology through... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

09:50 CEST

Keynote: Technical Documentation for Everyone (And Their AI Agents, Too) - Erin McKean, Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Google Open Source Programs Office, Google

Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:50 - 10:00 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

In this session, you'll learn about the history and future of the Docsy technical documentation project, why you should care about documentation EVEN MORE in the age of AI, and how everyone can and should contribute to open source documentation.

Speakers

Erin McKean

Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Google Open Source Programs Office, Google

Erin McKean helps Googlers create, share, and contribute to open source projects in Google's Open Source Programs Office. She is also the founder of the not-for-profit Wordnik.com, the world’s biggest online dictionary. Before founding Wordnik, she was the editor-in-chief of American... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 09:50 - 10:00 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

10:05 CEST

Keynote: Open Standards for Trusted Agentic Workloads - Laura Tacho, Senior Principal Technologist, Developer Experience, AWS

Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:05 - 10:15 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Agentic workloads must securely connect to tools, data, and other agents while operating within consistent authorization and security boundaries. Open standards make this possible. We'll discuss how technologies like MCP and Cedar create an "agent trust stack" for interoperable and scalable agentic systems so that developers have the freedom to compose and extend their agentic architectures securely, wherever they want to build.

Speakers

Laura Tacho

Senior Principal Technologist, Developer Experience, AWS

Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:05 - 10:15 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

10:15 CEST

Keynote: Open Source at a Crossroads: Geopolitics, Sovereignty, and the Fight to Stay Open - Nithya Ruff, Chair, Linux Foundation Board & Johan Linaker, Senior Researcher, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden & Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lund University

Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 CEST

Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Open source was built on one belief: code has no passport. Nation-states are testing whether that holds.
The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act burdens the ecosystem it depends on. US export controls threaten to erase the line between open and proprietary code — a protection open source has relied on for decades. China has made open source AI a national strategy pillar, building a parallel ecosystem resilient to Western sanctions. The 2024 removal of Russian Linux kernel maintainers showed that open source is no longer above the law of nations.

None of these actors set out to break the commons. But their decisions often made without open source expertise create tensions governance was never designed to handle: sovereignty-through-openness vs. sovereignty-through-restriction; what “open source first” means for companies that relicensed; what neutrality means when contributors face conflicting national laws; and whether open source AI becomes a geopolitical battleground or shared resource.

Engage policymakers before they damage the ecosystem, build governance for a fragmented world, and recommit to the principle that openness is not a vulnerability — it is the source of our strength.

Speakers

Nithya Ruff

Chair, Linux Foundation Board, Independent

Nithya has been in open source leader for over 25 years. She is a bridge builder working with companies large and small to create productive and strategic paths to working with open source. She led the Amazon OSPO & prior to Amazon, she started and grew Comcast and SanDisk's OSPO... Read More →

Johan Linaker

Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Johan Linåker is a Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University, working at the intersection of empirical software engineering, open technologies, and digital sovereignty. His work focuses on how public and private... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 10:15 - 10:30 CEST
Congress Hall (Floor 2)

Keynote Sessions

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